Spooky place in Delhi
Malcha Mahal
Amidst the dense forest,you can exprience the eerie feeling you may never expect in the city like DELHI
LOCATION
Address
Near Delhi Earth Station, Bistdari Road, Sardar Patel Marg, New Delhi-21
nearest metro station-INA
Area - south delhi
distance from airport-14 km
A Tragic past
The Malcha Mahal was called so because it is located in a village called Malcha.The entire area has now been engulfed by the sprawling metropolis and hustle bustle of Delhi but still the area has been able to maintain its secluded nature because of the forest around.It is a protected area that forms the Delhi ridge.
the Mahal was originally a Tughlaq era hunting lodge but the real story started when it was given to the last few descendants of the once prosperous royal family of Oudh. The last ruler of this dynasty was the famous Wajid Ali Shah, whose story has been poignantly depicted in Sayajit Ray’s classic, Shatranj Ke Khiladi.
One of his descendants, Princess Wilayat Mahal was finding it hard to hold on to her ancestral property after India’s independence and after a bitter struggle, the government apparently allotted Malcha Mahal in order to assuage her instead of returning her actual estate. She and her other relatives never recovered from this and she committed suicide, that too by drinking grounded diamond according to rumours, in 1993.
The next generation still lives there in obscurity but they are reclusive and are not exactly welcome to curious visitors
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